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Originally Posted by troutyluc
I tried it and nothing works so either send me instructions or stop harrassing me.
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I'm a forum lurker here, this is my first "official" post. As a PRS-505 and Mac owner, I've been following this thread with interest. I haven't noticed anyone "harassing" you. Instead, they provided you with the name of a software package and told you that it worked well (at least in their minds).
Not having heard of Calibre before, I tried a Google search (before the link was posted) and found it without too much difficulty. A quick download later and it was installed on my Mac.
Next, on to the RSS feed import. You want detailed instructions? These worked for me, and took about 5 mins to figure out. The Calibre UI is a bit non-intuitive when it comes to the RSS stuff, so perhaps that's where you were running into trouble.
1. Connect your Sony reader to your machine.
2. Open Calibre.
3. Click "Fetch News" in the toolbar, then select "Add Custom News Source"
4. Type a title in the "Recipe Title" field (eg: "My News Feeds")
5. Set the maximum age and max # of articles per field.
6. Each "recipe" can hold multiple RSS fields. Enter the first feed's Title and
URL in the respective fields. For delicious, enter a title and then the delicious RSS feed, eg:
http://del.icio.us/rss/your_userid_here
7. Click "Add Feed".
8. Repeat 6 and 7 if you have additional feeds you'd like to add to this collection/recipe.
9. Click "Add/Update Recipe" on the left-hand side to actually save your changes (this is what got me - I expected to have to click that FIRST, not LAST).
10. Click OK.
Now you have defined a collection of feeds to download. Calibre will save this list for future use. When you want to download/import those to your Reader, do the following:
1. Click "Fetch News" -> "Custom News Source" -> "Your newsfeed"
Calibre will download the articles in your feed and create an eBook.
2. Click "Send to Device"
That's it. Hopefully I didn't harass you with my response.
